Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist